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Approaches to Early-medieval Art
Author | : Lawrence Nees |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Contains seven contributions rejecting essentialist constructions in traditional art-historical analysis. Topics include iconoclasm and identity in early-medieval art, magic and money in the early Middle Ages, and the construction of sanctity in early medieval saints' shrines. First published as a special issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (October 1997). Includes bandw maps, illustrations. Lacks an index. Distributed by the U. Press of Kansas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
My Gay Middle Ages
Author | : A. W. Strouse |
Publisher | : punctum books |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2015-05-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0615830005 |
In the world of My Gay Middle Ages, Chaucer and Boethius are the secret-sharers of A.W. Strouse's "gay lifestyle." Where many scholars of the Middle Ages would "get in from behind" on cultural history, Strouse instead does a "reach around." He eschews academic "queer theory" as yet another tedious, normative framework, and writes in the long, fruity tradition of irresponsible, homo-medievalism (a lineage that includes luminaries like Oscar Wilde, who was sustained by his amateur readings of Dante and Abelard during the darks days of his incarceration for crimes of "gross indecency"). Strouse experiences medieval literature and philosophy as a part of his everyday life, and in these prose poems he makes the case for regarding the Middle Ages as a kind of technology of self-preservation, a posture through which to spiritualize the petty indignities of modern urban life. With a Warholian flair for insouciant name-dropping and a Steinian appetite for syntactic perversion, Strouse monumentalizes the medieval within the contemporary and the contemporary within the medieval. "Today, almost nobody reads Boethius, which if you ask me is a crying shame. Because Boethius is so gay. First of all, the heroine of the Consolation is this great big fierce diva, whose name is Lady Philosophy. She's a Lady, and she doesn't stand for anybody's crap. At the beginning of the book, Boethius is crying, all alone in prison, depressed that he's lonely and loveless and is going to be killed. Lady Philosophy descends from the heavens, a la Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. The first thing Boethius notices about her is that she's wearing an amazing dress with Greek letters embroidered on it-they stand for practical and theoretical philosophy. Her dress has been torn to shreds by the hands of uncouth philosophers. They didn't know how to treat a lady." (from "My Boethius") TABLE OF CONTENTS // The Most Famous Medievalist in the World - My Boethius - Memory Houses - The President of the Medieval Academy Made Me Cry - My Medieval Romance - The Formation of a Persecuting Society - The Medieval Heart is Like a Penis - Jilted Again - My Orpheus - Medieval Literacy - My Cloud of Unknowing - The Post-Medieval Unconscious - Coda: The Dedication"
Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
Author | : Robert L. Benson |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1434 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780802068507 |
Twenty-seven authors approach the diverse areas of the cultural, religious, and social life of the twelfth century. These essays form a basic resource for all interested in this pivotal century. A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982.
Medieval Families
Author | : Carol Neel |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780802084583 |
The collection reveals how scholars of the 1970s through the 1990s argued the importance of previously unconsidered questions about the shape of medieval familial experience, and how their mutual information and criticism has refined and added to this investigation in the intervening period.
Early Medieval Art, 300-1150
Author | : Caecilia Davis-Weyer (red.) |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780802066282 |
Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Toward a Global Middle Ages
Author | : Bryan C. Keene |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 160606598X |
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.